Lecture Series in Greek language.
Why do "bad guys" in cinema prefer modern architecture?
Tuesday 3/6, 20:30, DeptArch Amphitheatre
26/11-03/10/2014
31/5/2014 Dept. of Architecture, Volos
The exhibition of works created for the needs of the TANGLE POCKETS / a life in Eutopia workshop held in Tuscany-Italy will be inaugurated in the ‘’Enallax’’ exhibition and events hall (opposite to the University’s main library building at Volos), at the city of Volos, Tuesday 27th of May and it will be open for a week. The content of this exhibition is the presentation of the projects of the students of the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly. Additionally, a sequence of idiosyncratic photographs commending the Nature, the communal life episodes, the working patterns, the life into the rooms, the short crossings into the nearby geography, the voyages to the sea and the land, the personal archives and the off limit behaviour will be the vital surplus of the event.
Scientific Director: Iordanis Stylidis
Location / Time
Friday 26 April 2013– Thursday 2 May 2013, 27/4-1/5 2013.
Institute for Environmental Education,E.N.A.O.L.I., GROSSETO, Tuscany, Italy.
Organization for the Environment LEGAMBIENTE.
TASK: some SPATIAL QUESTIONS, TANGLE POCKETS.
The last seven years there have been 9 regional, international and multinational documentation and design workshops. These workshops, as the one scheduled to be active in Tuscany-Italy, were based on the experimental verification by empirical means, of the validity of sympiosis in eutopia’s constitutional space and time terms (living and acting together into a communal pocket). The workshops are always triggered by an invitation held to the director and the team by a community or an organization (in this case the Italian Environmental Organization LEGAMBIENTE). The group, already into a new un-explored place and a unique landscape, will dedicate each and every activity (lectures, field reconnaissance, designs, texts, common long discussions) or means to effectively deal with a given spatial question. Thus, every member is becoming the vital unit of a team working process aiming to reach a result, combining the personal ability with the communal or general meditative need, interpreting and correlating with locus, landscape, cultural syntax and stereotypes ...an attempt to gain any and all empirical data of eutopia (...a term been given by Lewis Mamford in his epic book : The history of Utopias)
Workshop Presentation MET-POL on Saturday 10th of May and Sunday 11th of May, at Thessalloniki City Center.
Read the poster.
Monday 5/5/2014, 21:00, Department's Amphitheatre
Marjetica Potrč is an artist and architect who has been a professor at the University of Fine Arts/HFBK in Hamburg, Germany, since 2011. Students of her course Design for the Living World develop participatory design projects during long-term residencies in various locations around Europe (such as Belgrade, Tromsø, Norway, and rural Austria) and elsewhere (Soweto, South Africa).
She has been a visiting professor at a number of other institutions as well, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2005) and the IUAV Faculty of Arts and Design in Venice (2008, 2010).
Potrč’s artworks (architectural case studies and drawing installations) have been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the Americas, including at the Venice Biennial (1993, 2003, 2009) and the São Paulo Biennial (1996, 2006), and are shown regularly at the Galerie Nordenhake in Berlin and Stockholm. Her many community-based on-site projects include Dry Toilet (Caracas, 2003) and The Cook, the Farmer, His Wife and Their Neighbour (Stedelijk Goes West, Amsterdam, 2009). She has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Vera List Center for Arts and Politics Fellowship at The New School in New York (2007).
'The Soweto Project'
The Soweto Project is practice of class Design for the Living World, which is course in particupatory design at HFBK University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. www.designforthelivingworld.com